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Monday, 6 July 2015

Popping on today with a cute Tiddly Inks card I made a while back. In class every so often I get them to do a sketch challenge and this is when they also get to do a bit of colouring as well rather than using a topper. This is the sample I made for them to follow.

I used one of the gorgeous Wyrn stamps and teamed her with some bright and funky MME papers. a few flowers and gems just to add a bit of decoration and a stamped sentiment cut into a banner shape.

Here's the sketch and measurements if you would like to have a go yourself

Saturday, 4 July 2015

Thought I'd show you a little something different today, one of the other things I am into at the moment is book folding.

These 2 were done as gifts one as a wedding present and one for a special lady celebrating her 50th birthday.

They do take up a fair bit of time measuring, marking and then folding but I do love the end result and you get something really rather special from an old book that would otherwise have been sent for recycling.

Friday, 3 July 2015

Hope you're not getting fed up of seeing my Santoro Willow makes - as I have another one to show you today.

Todays creation is a Box in Bag, which is technically a paper bag with a box in the bottom. Just perfect for holding a small gift and this is one is going to hold a gift for one of madams teachers.

The base of the bag has been made from a 12cm sq piece of card, scored all the way round at 2,5cm to give a box of 7cm sq. A piece of 12 x 12 has been secured to the sides of the box and taped together along the join. The gorgeous image is a Chipboard topper and I a layer up a couple of the larg blooms behind it. A couple of flowers cut out from FE dies and lots of little extra embellishments to decorate. To close the bag I have used a bulldog clip decorated with ribbon bow.

For full step by step instructions and full product listing please take a look HERE

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Back today with another card using the Santoro Willow collection from Trimcraft.

I am really into making cards with pockets and tags at the moment and this is one that I taught in my class last week.

The card is a wallet style with a pocket inside that holds a tag.

I love how this card opens up to reveal the pocket holding a cute little tag. The image on the front is a topper and the image and scalloped mat on the tag have been cut out from the packaging of the pins. I used a selection of FE dies for the flowers, doiley, tags and swirly bits and one of the gorgeous border dies to decorate the pocket.

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

I have a simple quick card to show you today again using the gorgeous Santoro Willow collection from Trimcraft.

I made a sweet little card 12.5cm x 11.5cm by cutting down one of the 5 x 7 kraft cards.

I layered up some of the gorgeous papers and spritzed them with some purple spray to tie in the fabulous purple blooms layered up behind the topper. A few embellishments were added just to finish off. On the inside of the card I stamped the same image as the topper in the bottom corner and spritzed with the purple spray just to tie it all together.